The Vanishing Black Son of House Speaker Mike Johnson

Speaker Mike Johnson's invisible adopted Black son exposes his racism and empty rhetoric about understanding discrimination.

• Speaker Mike Johnson has publicly referenced raising an adopted Black son named Michael, but Michael is absent from Johnson's public life and family photos.

• Critics doubt Johnson's claims about Michael and view it as a political prop to deflect accusations of racism, given Johnson's conservative stances opposing policies to address systemic racism.

• Johnso…